Nov 29, 2023 Kudos to the Healey-Driscoll Administration for a continued focus on our approaching climate change crisis, but we need to start acting to mitigate it By Jeff Porter The Healey-Driscoll Administration's announcement of its ResilientCoasts Initiative garnered a lot of attention, as it should have. If...
Nov 27, 2023 EPA's new Maui Functional Equivalence Guidance is guidance in name only as confusion continues to reign over the reach of the Clean Water Act By Jeff Porter Just before the Thanksgiving holiday EPA issued draft guidance regarding when a discharge of a “pollutant” to groundwater is the...
Nov 15, 2023 Target Strikes Back at Shareholder's (Reverse) Social Justice Suit By Jennifer B. Rubin We recently posted about the investor who sued Target Corporation for securities laws violations arising from Target's alleged failure to...
Nov 15, 2023 Half of the United States have now thrown everything but the kitchen sink at EPA's and the Corps of Engineers' WOTUS rule. What happens next? By Jeff Porter When EPA and the Corps of Engineers published their tenth attempt to determine the reach of the Federal Clean Water Act, I said the only...
Nov 14, 2023 Our pressing need for renewable energy is spurring all kinds of innovation, not all of it good, as The Boston Globe reports today. By Jeff Porter Our climate emergency has spurred all kinds of innovation around alternatives to the combustion of fossil fuels to generate energy. ...
Nov 13, 2023 Nature may abhor a vacuum but North Carolina has learned the same isn't true of Europeans with PFAS they don't want. By Jeff Porter Since EPA published its PFAS road map just a little more than two years ago, I've often commended EPA for its ambitious plan to regulate...
Nov 09, 2023 Engage the Workplace with a Military Mindset By Jennifer B. Rubin The WSJ piece about the benefit of hiring drill sergeants to double down on productivity and reduce whining makes some good points about...
Nov 09, 2023 SEC Commissioner Uyeda Suggests that Climate Disclosure Rule Should Be Delayed By Jacob H. Hupart Earlier this week, SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda--one of the two Republican appointees to the SEC--delivered remarks at the Practising Law...
Nov 08, 2023 These NGOs shouldn't be allowed to second guess what Congress & the President say is in our interests in the face of our climate emergency. By Jeff Porter Law 360 is reporting this morning on an NGO petition to the Army Corps of Engineers demanding that it not apply a Nationwide Permit...
Nov 07, 2023 This never-ending NIMBY challenge to the Vineyard Wind project illustrates that we may be winning renewable energy battles but still losing the war. By Jeff Porter Over two years ago I wrote about a lawsuit filed by a Connecticut-based solar farm developer with a summer home in Martha's Vineyard...
Nov 01, 2023 This is NOT a drill! EPA is going to require billions of dollars of PFAS remediation in many places, including at already "closed" Brownfield sites. By Jeff Porter Yesterday, I spoke with Sarah Mattalian, an Inside EPA reporter writing a story about the suggestion by an EPA official that EPA might...